>> How should PYTHONPATH be set? How would I get a pytest command in my >> checkout? > > You should ensure that when you "import pylint", pylint.__path__ point to your > checkout directory (or wherever you do your own modifications).
Thanks for the extra help. Making this work required a bit of effort. Distutils gets in the way (inserting the various packages it installed in front of whatever happens to be on PYTHONPATH), as does the default naming of the logilab-common package. For the benefit of others new to pylint development, here's what I did. 1. I have checkouts of pylint, astroid and logilab-common in ~/src. I need to create ~/src/logilab, make it a package with an empty __init__.py file, and mv logilab-common to ~/src/logilab/common. 2. Set PYTHONPATH to ~/src. 3. In the pylint/test directory, I ran this for loop: for f in *.py ; do echo $f PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)/../.. python -S $f done The -S flag suppresses distutils' machinations. When run this way, I get 100% success, modulo a few skips because of other missing packages (gtk, etc). I'll update doc/contribute.rst to reflect some of these extra steps and create a separate pull request. Skip _______________________________________________ code-quality mailing list code-quality@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/code-quality
